Chapter Summaries

Song Qingxi negotiated with Twilight Cloud City, Sunset City, and the Wanlong Merchant Association to build an alliance for developing the East Sea. The talks secured Twilight Cloud City's cooperation, but Peng Siming demanded more concessions, and Song Qingxi countered that the Song Clan had another option.

• Song Qingxi offered the Twilight Cloud City envoys access to East Sea resources and Myriad Manifestations Academy student slots in exchange for building Space Channels and lowering fees.
• After Song Qingxi warned Liu Xiyun that Twilight Cloud City was replaceable, he agreed to cover the Space Channel construction costs and charge only at cost for the route to Great Qian.
• Song Qingxi invited Shen Qingxiu and Peng Siming to discuss forming the East Sea Alliance, offering Jade Pool Island as its base and proposing that the Wanlong Merchant Association oversee its development.
• Peng Siming demanded greater benefits for the Wanlong Merchant Association, while Song Qingxi argued that the association would gain access to more resources and profits through cooperation.
• When Peng Siming insisted the Song Clan needed Wanlong's sales channels, Song Qingxi replied that Twilight Cloud City gave the clan another option.

Song Qingxi finalized the East Sea Alliance’s trade agreements and rules, securing Song Changsheng as its leader before a sudden breakthrough shook Vast Peak. Meanwhile, Song Changsheng turned the Vast Sea Merchant Association and Thousand Blades City’s proposal to attack the Brocade Banner into an offer of ships and resources for the Song Clan.

• Song Qingxi negotiated Wanlong Merchant Association’s exclusive trading rights in the alliance’s waters in exchange for five percent of its profits, while Wanlong agreed not to sell East Sea goods through its affiliated houses in three inland realms.
• Song Qingxi and Shen Qingxiu agreed to divide the archipelago’s two Third-Tier Spirit Vein islands between the Song Clan and Sunset City, leaving the remaining development to Twilight Cloud City.
• Song Qingxi established the alliance’s council, voting rules, and shared responsibilities, and the members agreed that Song Changsheng would serve as alliance leader.
• Song Qingxi saw a massive spiritual-energy vortex form above Vast Peak and wondered whether Grandmother or Youlin was breaking through.
• Song Changsheng rejected Wu Tiance and Chen Jiuchuan’s attempt to draw the Song Clan into a direct war against the Brocade Banner, then proposed that their factions attack instead.
• Wu Tiance offered the Song Clan Ocean Battleship blueprints and refined mystic iron, and Chen Jiuchuan promised a similar welcoming gift.

Song Changsheng secured the Vast Sea Merchant Association and Thousand Blades City’s support for the Song Clan’s naval fleet, then met Liuli to negotiate trade between the Colorful Scale Clan and the East Sea Alliance. After learning of a neighboring Sea Yaksha branch, he explored the Gemini Islands and discovered signs of human cultivators there.

• Wu Tiance and Chen Jiuchuan offered the Song Clan shipbuilding blueprints, refined mystic iron, weapons, and a detailed Brocade Banner sea chart, and Song Changsheng agreed to cooperate.
• Song Changsheng followed Liuli’s scale to the Gemini Islands and met Liuli, who questioned whether the East Sea Alliance had enough strength to serve her clan.
• Song Changsheng presented the Wanlong Merchant Association as proof of the alliance’s influence, and Liuli listed the goods her clan wanted to trade for.
• Song Changsheng agreed to Liuli’s prices and proposed that both sides’ leaders meet later to formalize their trade agreement.
• Liuli showed Song Changsheng her clan’s territory and warned him that the Sea Yaksha Clan controlled waters farther ahead.
• Song Changsheng entered the Gemini Islands to investigate and sensed human cultivator activity near a thatched hut on one of the islands.

Song Changsheng discovered Yin Chou cultivating Five-Leaf Blood Soul Flowers and uncovered the Blood Soul Demonic Sect’s return to the East Sea. After searching Yin Chou’s soul, he left him alive because the cultivator still had a use.

• Song Changsheng found and destroyed two fields of Five-Leaf Blood Soul Flowers, revealing the Sea Race corpses buried beneath them.
• Song Changsheng discovered a concealed cave and forced Yin Chou, a Purple Mansion Great Perfection cultivator, to emerge.
• Song Changsheng injured Yin Chou and demanded to know where he had obtained the flowers; Yin Chou offered information about a Star Fruit Tree in exchange for his life.
• Yin Chou revealed that he was an outer sect elder of the revived Blood Soul Demonic Sect and described its branches, strength, and plans.
• Song Changsheng performed a Soul Search on Yin Chou, confirmed his claims, and left him alive for another purpose.

Song Changsheng spared Yin Chou and bound him as an informant tasked with finding the Blood Soul Demonic Sect’s headquarters. He discovered that Yin Chou’s Star Fruit Tree grew from a Fourth-Tier Jade Bottle filled with Grand Lunar Gui Water, took both away, and returned to Yongan Island as Song Qingxi’s messenger arrived with good and bad news.

• Song Changsheng forced Yin Chou to surrender a wisp of his divine soul, then ordered him to return to the Blood Soul Demonic Sect’s branch and gather intelligence.
• Yin Chou gave Song Changsheng the upper volume of the Blood Soul Spirit Nurturing Scripture, and Song Changsheng told him to prioritize locating the sect’s headquarters and uncovering its major plan.
• Song Changsheng found the Star Fruit Tree in a hidden cave and discovered that its roots wrapped around a Fourth-Tier Jade Bottle filled with Grand Lunar Gui Water.
• Song Changsheng gathered the Star Fruit Tree and Jade Bottle into his sleeve, explored the nearby islands and seas, then returned to Yongan Island.
• Song Qingxi’s messenger arrived at Yongan Island with good news and bad news.

Song Changsheng learned that Song Luyun had died after a failed breakthrough, even as he secured an alliance and planned to seize key storm-shelter islands. Allied forces gathered at Jade Pool Island, while Song Zhexuan returned to Brocade Banner and faced a new investigation.

• Song Youfu told Song Changsheng that Thousand Blades City and the Vast Sea Merchant Association had agreed to support the Song Clan’s expansion, and Song Changsheng ordered the Protector Elder to seize two crucial storm-shelter islands.
• Song Youfu revealed that Song Luyun had died from a failed breakthrough, and Song Changsheng grieved while deciding to remain in the East Sea and continue the alliance’s work.
• Song Changsheng directed Song Youfu to send Song Zhexuan back and quietly encourage his anger against Brocade Banner, hoping to fuel factional conflict there.
• Song Zhexuan returned to Heavenly Dragon Peak, where Song Zheming confronted him under orders to investigate traitors within the Lineage.
• Li Chenming arrived to oversee construction on Jade Pool Island, followed by allied forces from Twilight Cloud City, Sunset City, and the Song Clan.
• Song Youfu was surprised to see Song Youlin arrive at Yongan Island’s harbor after emerging from seclusion.

Song Changsheng gathered the East Sea Alliance, planned an attack on the Gemini Islands, and arranged secret trade with the Colorful Qilin Clan. As the allied fleet set out, he prepared an array ambush for Song Daoling at One-Line Gorge.

• Song Youlin arrived with reinforcements, and Niu Dazhuang brought additional cultivators to help secure the East Sea.
• Song Changsheng convened the East Sea Alliance, revealed threats from the Sea Yaksha Clan and Blood Soul Demonic Sect, and ordered an assault on the Gemini Islands in ten days.
• The alliance elders swore secrecy and agreed to trade resources with the Colorful Qilin Clan, while Song Changsheng assigned the clan’s East Sea duties.
• Song Changsheng explained that he planned to ambush Song Daoling when the Brocade Banner moved to reclaim its territory.
• The allied fleet sailed for the Gemini Islands under Niu Dazhuang’s command, while Song Changsheng went to One-Line Gorge to build a killing array for Song Daoling.

Song Qingxing and Song Changsheng defended Twin Dragon Island from the Brocade Banner Song Clan, drawing Song Daoling into a prepared array. The battle left Song Daoling trapped and injured, while Song Changsheng continued pressing his attack.

• Song Qingxing defeated Song Zheyun’s defenses with a single sword strike, forced the Brocade Banner Song Clan’s crew to abandon their battleship, and warned them to leave Twin Dragon Island.
• Song Changsheng explained that his merged formations were nearly ready and instructed Song Qingxing to lure Song Daoling onto the island if he arrived.
• After hearing the news, Song Daoling sent his forces to watch the Vast Sea Merchant Association and Thousand Blades City, then personally set out for Twin Dragon Island.
• Song Daoling overwhelmed Song Qingxing in their first exchange, but stepping onto Twin Dragon Island triggered the Five Spirits Imprisoning Heaven Array, which trapped and weakened him.
• Song Changsheng attacked Song Daoling with the Ten Directions Universe Array and a space-infused punch, then used One Finger Settles Dust and the Void Bell to leave Song Daoling dazed and bleeding.

Song Changsheng and Song Daoling fought a fierce battle over Twin Dragon Island, trading formations, divine abilities, and treasures. After Song Daoling gained strength with pills, Song Changsheng summoned a thunder-charged Suanni Dharma Manifestation and used Drawing a Circle as a Prison to stop his escape.

• Song Daoling used a forbidden incantation to protect himself, but Song Changsheng attacked with the Sea-Suppressing Seal and activated the Five Saints array.
• Song Changsheng combined his Innate Divine Ability with the Ten Directions Universe Array Diagram, while Song Daoling broke free with a forbidden incantation and opposed his yin-yang millstone with Vast Sea Condenses into a Pearl.
• Song Daoling detonated the water droplet, breaking the array and devastating Twin Dragon Island, but Song Changsheng followed with the Mystic Mechanism Nine Transformations Sword Diagram and a concealed Seven-Inch Nail.
• Song Daoling blocked Song Changsheng’s attacks with the Black-Yellow Bell and hidden armor, then swallowed a Nine Mysteries Jade Brilliance Pill and a Dragon Elephant Pill to recover and increase his strength.
• Song Daoling overpowered Song Changsheng in a direct clash, but Song Changsheng used the Thunder Attraction Array to empower his Suanni Dharma Manifestation with the storm’s lightning.
• Song Daoling tried to escape the charging Suanni, and Song Changsheng traced a circle in the air and invoked Drawing a Circle as a Prison.

Song Changsheng trapped Song Daoling and nearly killed him, but Song Daoling unleashed a blood-powered broken spear that grievously wounded Song Changsheng. Song Qingxing’s sword strike severed Song Daoling’s lower body, though he escaped through a spatial rift, and the Song Clan withdrew from Twin Dragon Island to Yongan Island.

• Song Changsheng used a Space Barrier and his Suanni Dharma Manifestation to overwhelm Song Daoling and destroy his Black-Yellow Bell.
• Song Daoling empowered a broken silver war spear with his blood and pierced the Suanni, Song Changsheng’s defenses, and Song Changsheng’s chest.
• Song Changsheng survived by using a Heaven-Restoring Pill and a Life-Extending Pill, then revealed that Song Qingxing was ready to strike.
• Song Qingxing’s One Sword Tilts Heaven cut through Song Daoling’s waist as he escaped through a spatial rift, leaving his lower body and Storage Bag behind.
• Song Qingxing collected Song Daoling’s remains and helped the injured Song Changsheng withdraw; they destroyed Twin Dragon Island and returned to Yongan Island.

Song Changsheng recovered from his wounds after the coalition took control of the Gemini Islands, then discovered valuable treasures in Song Daoling’s belongings, including a drop of Supreme Essence Blood. He met Liuli and offered the information that he had nearly killed Song Daoling in exchange for her moving the sea demon horde away from the islands.

• Song Youfu reported that the main spirit islands were under control, though sea demons continued to harass the coalition, and Song Changsheng ordered his forces to hold the main islands and focus on construction.
• Song Changsheng gave Song Qingxing the Spirit-Capturing Jar containing a sea spirit, along with a Fourth-Tier talisman, and told him to guard Yongan Island.
• Song Changsheng searched Song Daoling’s Storage Bag and found Essence of Heaven and Earth, Dragon Elephant Essence Blood, and other treasures.
• Song Changsheng extracted a drop of Supreme Essence Blood from the broken silver spear, then secluded himself for ten days to heal.
• Song Changsheng met Liuli on a deserted island and offered to reveal an opportunity in exchange for her moving the sea demon horde away from the Gemini Islands.
• Song Changsheng revealed that he had ambushed Song Daoling at Twin Dragon Island and nearly killed him, while Liuli questioned whether he could have defeated an opponent at that level.

Song Changsheng secured the Color Scale Clan’s help and the Vast Sea Merchant Association’s support by proving he had gravely wounded Song Daoling, then organized the Song Clan’s East Sea holdings before preparing to return to Vast Peak. He left the East Sea branch with new resource plans and personnel, while arranging to collect academy resources from Myriad Manifestations Palace.

• Song Changsheng showed Liuli a Recording Orb of his battle with Song Daoling, convincing her to accept an alliance in exchange for supplies and a resource map near the Gemini Islands.
• Song Changsheng showed True Lord Xuan Shui the same proof, received a Miaohua Golden Core Pill, and secured the Vast Sea Merchant Association’s promise to keep the Brocade Banner away from the Song Clan’s cultivation efforts.
• Liuli subdued the Sea Demons on the Gemini Islands, and Song Changsheng’s clan members found rich spirit veins and valuable resources on the map; he ordered them to work with the Wanlong Merchant Association and start building a shipyard.
• Song Changsheng announced his return to Vast Peak, but Song Jingyuan and the others chose to remain in the East Sea, so he assigned them posts in the Song Clan’s new branch organization.
• Song Changsheng departed for Myriad Manifestations Palace to take Song Xiangjie back for judgment, settle branch academy matters, and exchange contribution points for resources.

Song Changsheng returned from Twilight Cloud City and learned that the Canglan River Water Tribe had grown restless while Bai Zhengchun entered the deadly Trial Road of the Boundless Sword Sect. Back at Vast Peak, he handed Song Xiangjie over for a public trial and allowed Song Yushi and Song Yulong to attend.

• Song Changsheng secured nine academy recommendations for Twilight Cloud City and learned its Space Channel to the East Sea was expected to be completed in about five years.
• At Heavenly Sound Mountain, Shen Qingxiu told Song Changsheng about the growing tensions with the Water Tribe, and he gave her Thunder Elephant True Monarch’s lightning insights for Zhan Tianxia.
• Shen Qingxiu explained that Bai Zhengchun had entered the Boundless Sword Sect’s perilous Trial Road to pursue a Golden Core breakthrough, driven by an Inner Demon tied to his master.
• Song Changsheng returned to Vast Peak with the unconscious Song Xiangjie and ordered the Law Enforcement Hall to arrange a public trial under the Clan Rules.
• Song Changsheng permitted Song Yushi and Song Yulong to attend the trial, and Song Yushi tearfully thanked him before glaring at Song Xiangjie.

Song Changsheng briefed the clan elders on the family’s growth and plans for developing the East Sea, then visited the ancestral mausoleum with Zhuang Yuechan. The chapter ended with the Song Clan holding a sacrificial ceremony to claim its ancestral lineage openly and bringing Song Xiangjie forward for judgment.

• Song Changsheng ordered the clan to recruit rogue cultivators for the East Sea and gave the elders a demonic scripture to guide experiments with spirit silkworms and plants.
• Song Changsheng entrusted Song Qingxi with the Six-Orifice Golden Lotus, Star Fruit Tree, and Grand Lunar Gui Water, then spoke at Song Luyun’s grave about the clan and its future.
• Zhuang Yuechan joined Song Changsheng at the mausoleum with food, and the two stayed together until dawn.
• Song Xianming presided over a sacrificial ceremony at the Ancestral Hall, where the Song Clan enshrined ancestral tablets and affirmed its legitimate lineage.
• The Law Enforcement Hall brought the sealed Song Xiangjie before the gathered clan, where Song Yulong and Song Yushi glared at him with hatred.

Song Changsheng oversaw Song Xiangjie's execution, then advised Song Qingxing to seek advancement on the Boundless Sword Sect's Trial Road. The chapter ended with Song Changsheng and other Golden Core experts gathering at the Canglan River to investigate a massive Heavenly Tribulation, which the Demon Kings believed might involve the Water Tribe.

• Song Changxue sentenced Song Xiangjie to lingchi, and Song Yulong carried out the execution before Song Changsheng annihilated Song Xiangjie's True Spirit.
• Song Changsheng entered seclusion with the Miaohua Golden Core Pill, while Song Qingxing returned the Star Fruit because it could not help his Sword Embryo transform.
• Song Changsheng advised Song Qingxi that Song Qingxing could pursue transcendence on the Boundless Sword Sect's Trial Road, and Song Qingxing replied that he would go.
• Song Changsheng sensed a vast power gathering over the Canglan River and arrived to find a violent Heavenly Tribulation underway.
• Mu Guibai, Bai Zimou, Shi Potian, and several Demon Kings arrived, and the Demon Kings said the tribulation likely belonged to the Water Tribe.

Song Changsheng and the others watched E Min undergo a Dragon Transformation Tribulation, which proved too powerful and killed him. The Tuolong Clan and Blazing Flame Demon King’s forces then fought over E Min’s corpse, leaving Shi Potian and the human cultivators to decide whether to intervene.

• Song Changsheng guessed that the tribulation was a Dragon Transformation Tribulation, and the group suspected the one undergoing it belonged to the Tuolong Clan.
• E Min emerged from the Canglan River with three Tuolong Clan Demon Kings, and Shi Potian explained that the human cultivators were guarding against accidents.
• E Min entered the tribulation cloud as Shi Potian, Song Changsheng, and the others shielded the four states from the lightning’s lingering power.
• The tribulation’s increasingly powerful lightning destroyed E Min’s inner core and killed him.
• Blazing Flame tried to take E Min’s corpse, prompting the Tuolong Clan Demon Kings and the Demon Race Demon Kings to fight over it.
• Song Changsheng and the others looked to Shi Potian to decide whether to intervene or stay out of the conflict.

Song Changsheng and the others watched the Demon Race attack the Tuolong Clan before intervening to protect E Min's body and aid the wounded E Lian. The battle became evenly matched, and Song Changsheng confronted the Sun-Chasing Demon King with his Great Divine Ability: Drawing a Circle as a Prison.

• Song Changsheng and his companions collected E Min's scattered True Dragon blood essence while deciding to wait before helping the outnumbered Tuolong Clan.
• The Demon Kings intensified their assault, and the Poison Nether Demon King tore flesh from E Min's body despite the Black-armored Mystic Turtle's defense.
• Shi Potian stopped two Demon Kings from reaching E Min's body, while Song Changsheng and Bai Zimou joined the fight against the Demon Race.
• Song Changsheng healed E Lian, who accepted his aid, and Shi Potian and the others balanced the battle against the seven Demon Kings.
• Song Changsheng moved to fight the Sun-Chasing Demon King, who revealed his Golden-winged Great Peng form, and Song Changsheng began using Drawing a Circle as a Prison.

Song Changsheng fought the Sun-Chasing Demon King, overwhelming him with spatial laws, martial strength, and divine abilities as the wider battle turned against the Demon Race. When the Great Qi cultivators gained the advantage and the Demon Kings tried to retreat, the Blazing Flame Demon King held off Shi Potian and the Black-armored Mystic Turtle to give his allies a chance to escape.

• Song Changsheng trapped the Sun-Chasing Demon King in a Space Barrier and evaded his attacks with Voidification before striking back with sword techniques and lightning-charged punches.
• Song Changsheng struck the Sun-Chasing Demon King's soul with the Yin-Yang Spirit Severing Gourd, then forced him to use a treasured Peng bone to escape the spatial barrier.
• Song Changsheng countered the Sun-Chasing Demon King's Big Dipper Instant Travel with Universe in the Sleeve, while the Human Race and Water Tribe gained the upper hand across the other battlefields.
• Chen Zhongfang and Bai Yan arrived, turning the battlefield into a nine-against-seven fight and prompting the Blazing Flame Demon King to order a retreat.
• Song Changsheng stopped the Sun-Chasing Demon King from escaping, while the Poison Nether Demon King fled and the Blazing Flame Demon King held off Shi Potian and the Black-armored Mystic Turtle to cover the other Demon Kings.

Song Changsheng and the allied human and Water Tribe forces defeated the Demon Race at the Canglan River, killing three Demon Kings before the survivors escaped. After distributing the spoils and discussing the Water Tribe’s missing forces and the East Sea Alliance, Song Changsheng went to Hundred Herbs Hall to see Lu Yuming and seek an answer from Jiang Shuming.

• Song Changsheng killed the Golden-winged Great Peng, E Lian killed the Purple Moth Demon King, and the Magic-Eyed Demon King self-destructed while trying to take Mu Guibai with him.
• The explosion halted the battle, allowing the wounded Blazing Flame Demon King and the surviving Demon Kings to escape; Song Changsheng then healed the injured allies.
• E Kun and E Lian took E Min’s body and left, while the human cultivators divided the two surviving Demon Kings’ remains and cores according to their contributions.
• Shi Potian, Song Changsheng, and the others discussed the Water Tribe’s absent Demon Kings and the possibility that they had been sent to the East Sea; Chen Zhongfang and the Heavenly Meridian Sect expressed interest in Song Changsheng’s alliance.
• Song Changsheng went to Jiang Province to calm the people, then set out for Hundred Herbs Hall to ask Lu Yuming to refine a Barrier Breaking Pill and to seek Jiang Shuming’s answer about their past matter.

After the Cambrian River victory, Song Changsheng visited Hundred Herbs Hall to commission pills and explore an alliance, while reconnecting with Jiang Shuming. Jiang revealed that the Lifespan Extending Treasure he had failed to obtain was the Great Unity Green Jade Fruit.

• Lu Yuming celebrated the news that six True Persons had slain three Demon Kings and welcomed Song Changsheng after learning he had personally killed the Sun-Chasing Demon King.
• Song Changsheng asked Lu Yuming to refine Barrier Breaking Pills from a Demon King Inner Core and offered Star Fruits for Dao Law Pills, prompting Lu to consider closer ties with the Song Clan.
• Song Changsheng reunited with Jiang Shuming and praised Song Youxiang, who had advanced to Foundation Establishment Late Stage and reached second-tier Great Perfection in talismans.
• Song Changsheng asked Jiang Shuming about the Lifespan Extending Treasure he had once hoped to obtain, and Jiang admitted that Lu Yuming had prevented him from acquiring it.
• Jiang Shuming told Song Changsheng that Hundred Herbs Hall's Lifespan Extending Treasure was the Great Unity Green Jade Fruit.